Community College of Chi-Mei in Kaohsiung County
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Basic Date
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Date of Foundation: 2001.03.03
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Co-Sponsor: Corporate Chung Li-Ho Culture and
Education Foundation
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Dean: Chung Tieh-Ming
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Vice Dean: Chung Ching-Sheng 、Chang
Cheng-Yang
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Chief Secretary: Lai Mei-Pin
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Address: No.21 Shu-Ran Rd, 842 Chishang,
Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
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Telephone: 886-7-6629378、6629625
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Fax No: 886-7-6629379
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Web Site: http://cmcu.tacocity.com.tw
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E-mail: cmcu@etf.ngo.org.tw
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Preface
Chung Li Ho Culture & Education
Foundation is the most lively Foundation in the
southern Taiwan. There are nine villages and towns
in Chi-Mei, Kaohsiung. Chi-Mei area have much less
government resource and social education resource
than other areas in past 5-6 years. The frequent
field investigation and community construction have
shaped its image as the ‘window of the community
culture in Kaohsiung County’. It excellent
life-learning environment has accumulated
considerable community energy. That is the initial
motive of Chung Li Ho Culture & Education Foundation
to strive for the community college to be set up in
the Chi-Mei area.
Introduction for The School Feature
Chi-Mei Community College was
being hosted by Kaohsiung County Government and
assisted by Chung Li Ho Culture & Education
Foundation. It engaged the staff of a very active
organization in Chi-Mei area, Meinung People’s
Association, to plan and execute. Their goal is to
organize various human and material resources by the
function of the community college and help the rural
village to find the way out as well as re-build up
the disconnected social relationship in the village
and then increase the energy needed for the
villages’ independence and development. It uses the
community working experience of Meinung Association
as the basis and then expands to different races,
societies and cultural network.
Due to many limitations for
opening the classes in the rural village areas, in
order to overcome these difficulties and several
problems existing in the village, it oppositely
community college.
1.Build up the link between the community and the
world.
When the globalization stirs up
the violent protest in the world, the rural village,
when is supposed to be impacted most seriously, is
surprisingly quiet. It appears to be weird before
the big change brought to them by WTO. For this
reason, except for the formal curriculums, we
arranged public forum, inspection and learning
curriculums, etc, and focus on the subject about the
impact brought by WTO to the rural village
development for all the citizens in the community to
participate.
2.The curriculums fully reflect the local features
For example, opening the
curriculum in aboriginal villages, due to the
distance to the school is far and the content of the
curriculum stress on the practice and
self-participation, we broke the schedule
arrangement routine, 2 hours every week, and made a
proper schedule for them. During the rainy season,
the road along the mountain to the classroom is easy
to have the landslide. The schedule arrangement has
to avoid the rainy hours, and the curriculum hours
have to be concentrated.
3.Combine with the local groups to expand the width
and depth of the articipation
For instance, in various
discussions about how Taiwan rural villages face the
impact after joining WTO. Organic agriculture is
always the noticeable possibility. The community
college is different from farmers’ association. It
lacks for the substantial power from farmers’
organization. Therefore, all moves have to be
started from individuals. For this reasons, we
opened organic vegetable class. Due to that all the
organic fertilizer the organic vegetables need is
from the garbage, in the 2nd semester we
combined the Meinung Environment Protection League,
whose main goal is to push the plan a ‘Garbage
Promotion Term’. This activity not only increase the
yield of the organic fertilizer, but also greatly
reduces the domestic garbage. It is also helpful to
speed up the Meinung small-sized incinerators.
4.The curriculum vision covers all community
problems
The crises the rural villages
face are not only economically, but also socially
and culturally. The Hakka Eight Tones in Meinung is
well preserved in the traditional type and famous
for the unique local type and content developed in
Meinung. It is also the indispensable music in all
customs of Hakka people’s lives in Meinung.
Therefore, we opened “Hakka Eight Tones Association”
to recruit the people who are interested in Hakka
Eight Tones. By the understanding, practice and
performance of the Eight Tones, this important
musical and cultural heritage can be continued and
the identification and respect of the citizens in
the community for the Eight Tones can be promoted at
he same time.
During the several decades of the
village development after the war, the cultivation
environment was being polluted. Lots of young people
and labors moved out of the villages. The present
problems in the society such as construction
insufficiency and that the farmers estranged from
the agriculture and the rural villages became the
challenges of the village-typed community
university. Before the community universities enter
the villages, unless they realize it is important to
involve the difficulties of the rural villages into
the vision of the community universities no matter
on the thoughts or the way of doing things, the
so-called village-typed community universities will
be never reached. Especially, the core task of the
community universities to learn by directly facing
the people has people has become the most expectable
chance for improving the preset problems in the
rural villages.
